Stray Leaves from a Border Garden 
incurred the anger of the Jumbi, or evil spirit. One is 
tempted to wish this persuasion more widely prevailed when 
one sees the wholesale clearance of trees made in some 
places. An unwise proceeding too, for there is a persuasion 
among some scientific arboriculturists that the change for 
the worse of the climate of the Riviera is due to wholesale 
deforesting. I have at last got to know that “haugh ” means 
a grass flat by a river. Although written “ haugh ” it is pro- 
nounced something like “haw.” In Northumberland, though 
written “ haugh,” it is pronounced “haaf.” “Haugh” is said 
to come from the Norse, and in Icelandic there is a word 
hagi, meaning “ pasture.” The Icelandic is said to be the 
language extant resembling most nearly the language of the 
old Vikings, who have left their mark in so many places. 
There seem to be a good many local words hereabouts of 
Scandinavian root, and I think I will note them ( see 
Glossary) whenever I come across them, to my knowledge. 
This interesting subject is cleverly handled in a book by 
Professor Veitch, called “ History and Poetry of the Scottish 
Border,” well worth reading. One of the wood-carters’ 
horses, by name Jimmy, has been at wood-hauling in the 
same hands “ ever sin’ he was a little yen ” (one ; Danish, 
een) says his master, who seems both proud and fond of 
him, and, though shouting rough-sounding directions 
very loudly, never fails to pat the good beast whenever he 
has pulled to the desired spot some troublesome long bole. 
“ I like to see how everything is done,” says Boy, standing 
with his feet far apart, and his red cap well on the back of 
his golden head, and the stalwart carter smiles approvingly ; 
such a laird would commend himself to the keen Scot’s 
mind, no doubt. The quaint old-fashioned auriculas are 
beginning to be plentiful now. “ Dusty millers ” the Scotch 
call them, and indeed one is very dusty after picking a posy 
of the dear little dowdy brown blooms, whose delicious 
smell makes one quite forget and forgive their plainness. 
Bear’s-foot and Primrose Bear’s-ear are old-time names for 
these, probably translated from the French oreille (Tours or 
the Italian orechio (Torso. Bear’s-foot is also applied to the 
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